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Slav Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Slav Macedonians ETHNONYMS: Macedonians, Skopje Slavs, Vardar Slavs Orientation Identification...that name. The Slavic inhabitants of the republic are called Macedonians, although names such as Slav Macedonians are used to distinguish...
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Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Macedonians PRONUNCIATION: mass-uh-DOE-nee...million (about 70 percent are ethnic Macedonians) LANGUAGE: Macedonian RELIGION: Eastern...Yugoslavia. On September 8, 1991, Macedonians approved a referendum on their country...
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Macedonian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...resources other than mineral deposits. Macedonians have traditionally made their living...seven percent are identified as ethnic Macedonians. Albanians make up the largest minority...are also represented. The majority of Macedonians, 59 percent, belong to the Eastern...
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Macedonia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...Orientation Identification. The ancient Macedonians were considered non-Greek but are...nationals by the modern Greeks. Modern Macedonians are Slavs descended from the peoples...Muslims, and others. The number of Macedonians in neighboring states is difficult to...
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Kiro Gligorov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1893, fought for "Macedonia for the Macedonians" and the creation of an independent...Bulgaria. In addition, a small number of Macedonians were included in Albania. 'The Apple...considering them Bulgarians. For the Macedonians themselves the division was but one...
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Bulgarian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Turks represented 8.5 percent, Gypsies 2.6 percent, Macedonians 2.5 percent, and Armenians, Russians, and Greeks each...from the Persians in the sixth century B.C., to the Macedonians, who settled the region under Alexander the Great, to the...
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Slavs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Slavs include the Serbs, the Croats, the Slovenes, the Macedonians, the Montenegrins, the Bosniaks, and the Bulgars. The...of the Belorussians, the Bulgarians, the Serbs, and the Macedonians) and those historically affiliated with the Roman Catholic...
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Albania
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...percent of the population is made up primarily of Greeks and Macedonians. For information on the Greeks, consult the chapter on Greece in Volume 4. Information on the Macedonians can be found in the chapter on Macedonia in Volume 5.
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Philip II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the hostile Athenian Demosthenes, disclaimed his and the Macedonians' claim to membership in the Greek race and labeled Philip...left him with a marked inferiority complex. Culturally the Macedonians were less advanced than their southern Greek neighbors...
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phalanx
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Middle East. Later, the Macedonian phalanx deteriorated and had few Macedonians in it; it was defeated in several battles with the Romans who conquered (168 BC) the Macedonians at Pydna. Thereafter the phalanx was obsolete. Because it lacked...
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